Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ In their cov­er­age area, the fol­low­ing must be broad­cast by wire:

a.

pro­gramme ser­vices of the SRG SSR with­in the frame­work of the li­cence;

b.

pro­gramme ser­vices based on a li­cence with a per­form­ance man­date.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may also spe­cify pro­gramme ser­vices of for­eign broad­casters which are to be trans­mit­ted by wire be­cause of their spe­cial con­tri­bu­tion to edu­ca­tion, cul­tur­al de­vel­op­ment or free opin­ion-form­ing.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines the max­im­um num­ber of ac­cess-en­titled pro­gramme ser­vices in ac­cord­ance with para­graphs 1 and 2 with­in the frame­work of the tech­nic­al cap­ab­il­it­ies of tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­viders. The pro­gramme ser­vices are to be trans­mit­ted free of charge and in ad­equate qual­ity.

⁴ The tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­vider which already broad­casts pro­gramme ser­vices in the cov­er­age area and reaches the most house­holds is primar­ily sub­ject to the broad­cast­ing ob­lig­a­tion. With­in the same cov­er­age area, OF­COM may re­quire more than one tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­vider if this is ne­ces­sary to en­sure that a pro­gramme ser­vice can be re­ceived by the gen­er­al pub­lic. In the event of re­fus­al, OF­COM may ar­range im­me­di­ate broad­cast­ing by way of pre­cau­tion.

⁵ If com­pli­ance with this ob­lig­a­tion leads to an un­reas­on­able eco­nom­ic bur­den on the tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­vider, OF­COM shall re­quire the ac­cess-en­titled broad­caster to pay ap­pro­pri­ate com­pens­a­tion.

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ex­tend the trans­mis­sion ob­lig­a­tion to ser­vices which are coupled with ac­cess-en­titled pro­gramme ser­vices.